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  • Schaps, David (1977): The Woman Least Mentioned. Etiquette And Women's Names. In: The Classical Quarterly 27 (02). DOI: 10.1017/S0009838800035606

    Abstract: ‘And if I must make some mention of the virtue of those wives who will now be in widowhood, I will indicate all with a brief word of advice. To be no worse than your proper nature, is a great honour for you; and great honour is hers, whose reputation among males is least, whether for praise or for blame.’ Nobody who has read these words of Pericles - cold comfort, surely, for the Peloponnesian War widows - or other such expressions, which were commonplace in Athens, will be surprised to find that the list of Athenian citizen women who are known to us from literature is rather short. Large areas of male culture were in fact entirely closed to women: the assembly, the lawcourts, the gymnasium, and even the normal daily social encounters of Athenian men, were not open to the direct participation of women. Fictional women, of course, play important roles in both tragedy and comedy; but those who actually lived tend to be known to us, if at all, from dedications or from tombstones.

    Keywords: Bekanntheitsgrad, Disziplin, Etikette, Etiquette, Gender, Konversationsregeln, Linguistik, Soziale Angemessenheit
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